I always liked his music but never went out of my way to buy any of his stuff as I was never really a music fan and I was really disapointed when I found out he never wrote his own songs and that Bat Out of Hell wasn't about a real motor cycle crash that Meat had been in but in 98 I downloaded Anything For Love, Not A Dry Eye In The House and Bat Out Of Hell from Napster, then my friend loaned me BOOH II Picture Show to prove that Angelina Jolie was in a Meat music video because I didn't believe him and when I watched it I thought he was amazing and decided to keep to the video- with permission from him, I especially liked Rock'n'Roll Dreams the music video and I just forgot about him until later that year when I saw BatII in a sale for £6.99 and I thought I may as well buy it as it's such a low price. When I heard it I couldn't believe it, it was the first album I heard on which every song was amazing and I couldn't understand why Out of the Frying Pan hand't been released as a single, for weeks after that I couldn't stop listening to Everything Louder then Everything Else as the words were simply fantastic and then I discovered the whole partnership with him and Steinman and understood it didn't mattter if he didn't write the songs and then I bought his autobiography and since then it hasn't stopped, now I've reached spiritual enlightenment as Steinmans songs helped find God- he comes from Texas and sang Bat Out Of Hell.
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